This is why Women for Women International provides a platform where women attend a 12-month long training program help empower themselves, with emphasis on health and wellbeing, economic and social development, decision making and building support networks.

World Humanitarian Day, which takes place every year on August 19th, recognizes the workers who risk their lives in humanitarian service, and mobilizes people to advocate for humanitarian action. On this year's World Humanitarian Day, the UN and its partners are advocating for the protection of...

Happy Father’s Day to all the loving dads around the world! We would like to take a moment and celebrate all the dads who have gone through Women for Women International’s Men’s Engagement Program. We work with men around the world to ensure that they are allies in the fight for gender equality...

Women have free and equal rights to live their lives with dignity – free from fear and free from want. These rights are specifically enshrined in international human rights law, such as the Beijing Platform for Action and the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against...

Yesterday Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton sat down with CNN’s Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour to discuss the importance of women involvement in peace and security. What much of the news media missed was the emphasis that she put on investing in women’s rights in the United...

Women for Women International (WfWI) began its work in Rwanda in 1997 when many of the wounds of genocide were still open. We bore witness to the efficiency of the government in healing some of the physical scars of the violence, but what remained and what continues to haunt local communities is the...